Eastwood set for ‘Crimes’

He'll direct and star in Schiff-scripted suspense thriller

Academy Award-winner Clint Eastwood has announced his next feature project, signing on to direct and star in the suspense thriller “True Crimes,” which he’ll produce with Richard Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck for Warner Bros.

Pic, slated to start production in May, is based on Andrew Klavan’s bestselling novel about the 26 hours preceding a condemned man’s execution as a down-and-out newspaperman (Eastwood) works desperately to prove the prisoner’s innocence in light of newly discovered evidence.